Hansel
Beltway Brewing Company in Sterling, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
6.61
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6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
Crystal clear coloured body with a bright orange and copper body with some apricot highlights and almost no head at all. Aroma of bright funky citrus and tropical fruits with guava, passionfruit, pineapple, papaya and some bretty funk noticeable. Light-bodied; Strong funky, cardboardie flavour with only a touch of the grain and odd brett funk around, basically none of the fruits show up in the taste. Aftertaste is relatively mild and super low-key with only a bit of the grass and hay coming through and not much of the fruit either with only a dose of funk that shows through, all from the brett and yeast strain. Overall, a pretty subdued beer with nothing else terribly complex or enjoyable, but a decent beer, perhaps, just not worth searching out or trying to grab. I sampled this sixteen ounce can purchased from Total Wine in Alexandria, Virginia on 31-May-2017 for US$4,36 sampled at home in Washington a day before running the USMC Marathon 2017 for the seventh time on 20-October-2017.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Oct 2017
at 02:25
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sample from 2017 Virginia Craft Brewers Fest, Charlottesville. Citrus peel, funk, sour citrus flavor and taste. Eh.
Tried
on 19 Aug 2017
at 20:10
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
16oz can pours a hazy, dark gold with some hazy, white head. Nose has passion fruit, grapefruit peel. Flavor has harsh citrus peel, kumquat, some passion fruit. Finishes tart.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Jul 2017
at 09:11
7/10
Clear gold bod sml wht head. Tart floral citrus arma. Tart floral and citrus flav. Med bod mod carb. 7/3/7/3/15 3.5
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2017
at 18:08
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Orange and some lime. Tangy finish. Pours orange with ok head and lacing. Decent balance like yoga.
Tried
on 08 Jul 2017
at 17:17
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Pounder: Pencil shavings, lemon, gym sock nose. Clear amber, medium head. Tart grapefruit and lemon. Medium body, easy carbonation. Delicious.
Tried
on 23 Mar 2017
at 18:16
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draft at the Beltway source. Hazy yellow color, see pic please. Aroma of herbal lemon. Taste is floral, sour, lightly bitter finish. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Feb 2016
at 13:16
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
4 oz pour on draft at Beltway. Hazy orange yellow with off-white head. Aromas of soapy notes, floral notes, citrus, light tartness. Tastes of light sourness, light floral, tropical and citrus fruit. Medium-light body with a dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jan 2016
at 16:09
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft at the First LoCo Brew Festival. Poured a dull looking orange color with a small off-white head. Aroma was tart notes, sour mash notes, light floral notes. Flavor had a decent light tartness, nothing overpowering here. Light melon notes, light tropical.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Oct 2015
at 22:14